Time Quote by Marcel Proust

““...there is no brew so deadly that it cannot at certain moments become precious and invigorating by giving us just the stimulus that was necessary, the warmth that we cannot generate ourselves.””

Marcel Proust

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“Art extracted from the most familiar reality does indeed exist and its domain is perhaps the largest of any.”

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I find very reasonable the Celtic belief that the souls of our dearly departed are trapped in some inferior being, in an animal, aplant,…

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“We betroth ourselves by proxy, and then feel obliged to marry the intermediary.”

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